Obama to attend beginning of U.N. climate meeting

Despite the recent revelations that a significant body of the so-called global warming settled science is fraudulent, President Obama has decided that political truth outweighs scientific truth... that political truth being "you can't change your position without looking like a dupe."

Obama to attend beginning of U.N. climate meeting

Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:05pm EST

FACTBOX: White House lays out Copenhagen emissions proposal

3:05pm EST

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for a U.N. climate change meeting on December 9, hoping to add momentum to an international process despite slow progress on a domestic bill to cut carbon emissions.

Obama planned to make a visit at the beginning of the climate negotiations in Denmark, an administration official told Reuters on Wednesday, before picking up the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in neighboring Oslo.

Obama did not plan to return for the end of the December 7-18 meeting, when roughly 65 other heads of state and government are expected to attend, the official said.

Obama has made climate change a top priority of his administration, but a bill to cut U.S. emissions is bogged down in the U.S. Senate. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed its version of climate change legislation.

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